[2] It is to include a park as well as luxury homes, hotels, a casino, a marina, shops, and offices and will have Greece's tallest buildings reaching up to 200 meters in height.

The competition was sponsored by UIA (International Union of Architects), the Greek Ministry of Environment and the Organization for the Planning and Environmental Protection of Athens (ORSA).

These strips integrate a playful work on artificial topography that both guides the water and create terraces and slopes for the park activities and programs.

The team included Foster & Partners, Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, ARUP and a large group of Greece design consultants.

Snowfall is not very common, though it occurs almost every year, but it rarely causes severe disruption to daily life, in contrast to the northern parts of Athens, such as Kifisia.